Category Archives: World
Koreas, US-led UN Command discuss disarming border area
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - The rival Koreas and the U.S.-led United Nations Command met Tuesday to discuss efforts to disarm a military zone the rivals control within their shared border under a peac...
Oct 16, 2018
'Dark days' over: Gambia launches truth, reconciliation body
BANJUL, Gambia - Gambia has launched a truth, reconciliation and reparations commission to lay bare abuses committed under the 22-year rule of former leader Yahya Jammeh, with President Adama Barrow d...
Oct 16, 2018
Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist, dies
SEATTLE - Paul G. Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Bill Gates before becoming a billionaire philanthropist, technology investor and owner of several professional sports teams,...
Oct 16, 2018
Paul Allen's passions: Rock n' roll, sports and philanthropy
SEATTLE - Personal computers, conservation, pro football, rock n’ roll and rocket ships: Paul G. Allen couldn’t have asked for a better way to spend, invest and donate the billions he reap...
Oct 16, 2018
Trump lashes out at Warren over DNA test, calls her 'phoney!'
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump lashed out at Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday over DNA test results she released that indicate she has some Native American heritage, saying she is “getting ...
Oct 16, 2018
Mattis: Trump says defence chief's job is '100 per cent' safe
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam - Amid speculation that he may soon be replaced, Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said President Donald Trump told him he supports the retired Marine general “100 per cent....
Oct 16, 2018
California winds easing, wildfire risk narrowing
LOS ANGELES - California remained on guard Tuesday, but gusty winds that raised the threat of wildfires were decreasing in strength and becoming less widespread a day after knocking out power to thous...
Oct 16, 2018
Deputies search for Wisconsin girl whose parents are dead
BARRON, Wis. - Authorities searched Monday for a 13-year-old girl they believe is in danger after her parents were found dead in their western Wisconsin home. Deputies went to the home in Barron after...
Oct 16, 2018
Oklahoma's Choctaw horses connect to Mississippi
POPLARVILLE, Miss. - Six foals sired by a cream-colored stallion called DeSoto scamper across a pasture in southwest Mississippi - the first new blood in a century for a line of horses brought to Amer...
Oct 16, 2018
Firms cite law in Missouri boat accident, seek mediation
Two companies facing multiple lawsuits over a summer tourist boat accident in Missouri that killed 17 people have invoked an 1851 law that allows vessel owners to try to avoid or limit legal damages a...
Oct 16, 2018